Clinton Releases More Plans to Cut Health Care Costs-plans continue to favor consumers over maj
Thanks for looking out for families Hillary.
National Journal
http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/73702/hillary-clinton-releases-more-plans-cut-health-care-costs
Hillary Clinton Releases More Plans to Cut Health Care Costs
Her plans continue to favor consumers over major industry groups.
EARL GIBSON III AFP/GETTY
Caitlin Owens
September 23, 2015
Hillary Clinton expanded her plan to tackle out-of-pocket health care costs on Wednesday, releasing proposals building on the Affordable Care Act’s cost-saving provisions while adding a few new ones of her own......................
“When Americans get sick, high costs shouldn’t prevent them from getting better. With deductibles rising so much faster than incomes, we must act to reduce the out-of-pocket costs families face,” Clinton said in a statement. “My plan would take a number of steps to ease the burden of medical expenses and protect health care consumers.”
Clinton’s policy proposals include: requiring insurers and employers to provide up to three sick visits to a doctor annually without having to first meet a plan’s deductible; providing a progressive, refundable tax credit of up to $5,000 per family for out-of-pocket costs; enforcing and broadening the ACA’s transparency provisions; creating a “fallback process” for states that do not have the authority to modify or block health-insurance premium-rate increases; enforcing antitrust laws while monitoring health-industry consolidation; and mergers and building on value-based delivery-system reforms.
The plan cited the results of a Kaiser Family Foundation report on employer-sponsored insurance released on Tuesday that found the average deductible this year is $1,318 for single coverage and has grown seven times faster than workers’ wages since 2010. The report also found that single and family payers for employer-sponsored health insurance grew an average of 4 percent this year, part of a decade-long pattern of moderate growth.
While Clinton’s proposals are aimed at assuaging voters’ concerns about rising premiums and high deductibles, they are certain to draw fierce criticism from the industry groups that Clinton’s plans target.................
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Response to JRLeft (Reply #2)
from the first big televised HC meeting at the WH and meeting with a major Pharma rep and making a deal opposite to campaign promises.
Polls showed people overwhelmingly in a favor of a not for profit, politicians ignore them once elected. Sanders says he needs people afterwards to fight for what they want and I do not think he will make the backroom deals with corporations we have seen in the past.
You cannot advance an idea if you ignore and marginalize it.
Now there is a win/win for the health insurance industry! 
and three visits is absolutely nothing when one is confronted by a serious and ongoing illness.
Fierce criticism is a not for profit health care system, not keeping that system alive.
and many of our visits have run into the thousands because of lab charges, not the doctor's fee. An $8500. an annual out of pocket maximum for six plus years puts a strain on one's income/savings.
Doctor's fees are not the problem, spent the day working on medical bills. They will not bankrupt someone! A hem/onc post transplant doctor's visit $480, which is similar to what an internist charges for an annual visit. But the entire visit could range from $3000. to $9000. depending on the lab tests done that day. Doctor's fees are a drop in the bucket, not to mention prescriptions and hospitalizations.
Something needs to change and it is not three doctor's visits.
